The Card

A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns

Fiction & Literature, Classics
Cover of the book The Card by Arnold Bennett, Penguin Books Ltd
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Author: Arnold Bennett ISBN: 9780241255551
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Publication: July 28, 2016
Imprint: Penguin Language: English
Author: Arnold Bennett
ISBN: 9780241255551
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication: July 28, 2016
Imprint: Penguin
Language: English

Set in the raw, Victorian world of the 'Five Towns', The Card tells the extremely funny and tangled story of Denry Machin's rise from mediocrity to fame through a series of ludicrous and yet perversely successful schemes. He dances, pleads, cheats and inspires his way through life in a series of set-pieces which wonderfully evoke a now long-gone world of civic balls, seaside excursions, newspaper boys and patent chocolate remedies. As everybody said after one of his most stylish coups, Denry 'was not simply a card; he was the card.'

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Set in the raw, Victorian world of the 'Five Towns', The Card tells the extremely funny and tangled story of Denry Machin's rise from mediocrity to fame through a series of ludicrous and yet perversely successful schemes. He dances, pleads, cheats and inspires his way through life in a series of set-pieces which wonderfully evoke a now long-gone world of civic balls, seaside excursions, newspaper boys and patent chocolate remedies. As everybody said after one of his most stylish coups, Denry 'was not simply a card; he was the card.'

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